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** ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': The flying city of Columbia which has robot {{Sentry Gun}}s, mechanical presidents, and cyborgs in the year 1912. This is to [[spoiler:them taking ideas from the Tears that open]] which is why the Vigors are suspiciously similar to [[spoiler:Plasmids]]. [[spoiler:Fink learned about them and built upon the failed tests of drinkable plasmids]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}'': The underwater city of Rapture, which has automatic doors (made a few years earlier than in real life), genetic modification, and [[DieselPunk diesel-powered]] robots and {{SentryGun}}s in the 1950-60s.
* ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': The flying city of Columbia which has robot {{Sentry Gun}}s, mechanical presidents, and cyborgs in the year 1912. This is to [[spoiler:them taking ideas from the Tears that open]] which is why the Vigors are suspiciously similar to [[spoiler:Plasmids]]. [[spoiler:Fink learned about them and built upon the failed tests of drinkable plasmids]].

* Any of the "future" stages in ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'', though there it's justified -- the game's major theme is TimeTravel.

* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVIII'': Esthar, the most technologyally advanced city-state in the game, is full-on CrystalSpiresAndTogas while the rest of the world has technology roughly comparable to the 20th century. Amongst other things, it has a cloaking device which keeps it hidden from the rest of the world, is the only city in the game shown to have a functioning space program, and is home to Odine Laboratories, one of the finest magical research institutes in the world. The tech difference can be partially justified in that they're also very isolationist, so their advancements wouldn't have spread to the other nations - yet even so, said isolationism is less than twenty years old. Not to mention that isolationist cultures are typically ''less'' advanced, due to the lack of external competition.

See also SchizoTech, {{Zeerust}} and DecadeDissonance.

* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVIII'': The city of Esthar. Amongst other things, it has a cloaking device which keeps it hidden from the rest of the world, is the only city in the game shown to have a functioning space program, and is home to Odine Laboratories, one of the finest magical research institutes in the world. The tech difference can be partially justified in that they're also very isolationist, so their advancements wouldn't have spread to the other nations - yet even so, said isolationism is less than twenty years old. Esthar is full-on CrystalSpiresAndTogas while the rest of the world is early 20th century. Not to mention that isolationist cultures are typically ''less'' advanced, due to the lack of external competition.

* Sanctuary Fortress in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeEchoes''. After having just beaten the quiet, tropical [[BubblegloopSwamp Torvus Bog]], the Sanctuary Fortress, which is about as technological as possible, snuck up on players.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'': The Industrial District is a stark change to what has come before. Loads and loads of mazelike, mile-high catwalks; a strange power plant which wouldn't look out of place in ''Sonic the Hedgehog''; a Ripley Scott aesthetic in the Russian-owned factories, etc.

* Sanctuary Fortress in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 2: Echoes''. After having just beaten the quiet, tropical [[BubblegloopSwamp Torvus Bog]], the Sanctuary Fortress, which is about as technological as possible, snuck up on players.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' has anything built by [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent the Dwemer]]. They combined their abilities as master enchanters with their SteamPunk engineering prowess to build {{Magitek}} machines far more advanced than anything the other races could create. They were also known to tamper with the laws of time and physics to ensure that their creations [[RagnarokProofing were built to last]]. Even 4000+ years after their disappearance (the cause of which is unknown, but very likely involved their attempt AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence using the literal heart of a [[GodIsDead Dead God]]) their cities and machinery are still up and running, making them inviting (if extremely dangerous) targets for scavengers.

** Also the entirety of Sn@xx Dimension from ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4It'sAboutTime'', has food themes.

* Can be invoked in any game of ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' if you manage to have researched way more technologies than your rivals. Certain civilizations, such as Korea in Civilization V, let you do this much more easily.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Academy City, which is said to have technology that's 20 years ahead of everyone else.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has the Lanayru Mining Facility, with what seems like the only place in all of Hyrule history so far to have electricity.

[[caption-width-right:350:Laputa was a city considerably advanced for 1706]]

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* [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Deep Space]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''. Somewhat justified, as it's a galactic spaceship that merely happens to be crossing through TheMultiverse back to its proper dimension... a fantasy-dominant multiverse.

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* [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Metropolis Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Scrap Brain Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicRiders Metal City]], [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Grand Metropolis, Power Plant]], [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Eggmanland]], and many more, all from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that they are presumably the work of [[MadScientist Robotnik/Eggman]], except for Grand Metropolis. The ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' subseries has a high level of technology far above the rest of the Sonic games. ''Zero Gravity'' has a pair of courses set in what looks like modern-day Japan, but the game explains that this is an artificial construct.

* Gault's Gulch from ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' was created by John Gault to be a utopia built on [[Creator/AynRand Ayn Rand's]] philosophy of UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} - a community built on the self-interest of exceptional people (mainly captains on industry and high-grade employers held down by the socialist shit-hole the USA has turned into). Because of this, Gault's Gulch has access to resources and technology more advanced than anywhere else, allowing it to remain hidden and sustain itself while the rest of the world collapses.

* Due to a comet made of [[{{Unobtanium}} vibranium]] crash-landing on the sight millions of years prior, the African-nation of [[Characters/MCUWakandaGovernmentMilitary Wakanda]] from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse can be considered the most technologically advanced nation on Earth, having access to advanced technology like hover-vehicles, lasers, medical-tech capable of curing fatal (or at least permanently crippling) injuries in a matter of hours and have a much higher standard of living than even most first-world countries.

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* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

* 2010's release, Creator/{{Disney}} and Junction Point's ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', has this has one of its early levels. Including TronLines everywhere in the latter half of the level, including the boss, the walking ''{{Tron}}'' homage Petetronic.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': There are its fair share of tongue-in-cheek SchizoTech, but [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0964.html Tinkertown]] stands out as a SteamPunk [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnome]] city-state with advanced technology like LightningGun artillery, in a world that's basically MedievalStasis.

''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': A town from the future is teleported 300+ years into the past.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}'': The underwater city of Rapture, which has automatic doors (made a few years earlier than in real life), and robots, in the 1950-60s.
* ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': The flying city of Columbia (which also has robot {{Sentry Gun}}s and cyborgs) in the year 1912.

* Area 66 from ''VideoGame/MadWorld''.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' has anything built by [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent the Dwemer]]. They combined their abilities as master enchanters with their SteamPunk engineering prowess to build {{Magitek}} machines far more advanced than anything the other races could create. They were also known to tamper with the laws of time and physics to ensure that their creations [[RagnarokProofing were built to last]]. Even 4000+ years after their disappearance (the cause of which is unknown, but very likely involved their attempt AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence using the heart of a [[GodIsDead Dead God]]) their cities and machinery are still up and running, making them inviting (if extremely dangerous) targets for scavengers.

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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': There are its fair share of tongue-in-cheek SchizoTech, but [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0964.html Tinkertown]] stands out as a SteamPunk [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnome]] city-state with advanced technology like LightningGun artillery, in a world that's basically MedievalStasis.
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* Cliffport City in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. The characters even lampshade the fact.